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The script expands on part 5 of the how to series and produces a reverse permission report of the delegates of all Mailboxes on a server or within a Exchange Org or Exchange Online tenant. This is to help show for a particular delegate what mailboxes that they have been given delegate rights to and if they can see private Items and do they receive Meeting forwards. This script is designed to be run from within a Remote Powershell session that is already connected to your Exchange 2010 org (or from a Exchange Online/Office365 remote Powershell session).  It uses Get-Mailbox to get all the mailboxes in your org and then it uses the EWS Managed API to connect to each mailbox and query the delegates. It then produces a CSV file that looks like If you want to understand how it works have a read of the How To Series posts and hopefully you should be able to work out how to customize it if you need to for your own environment. The Script as posted uses EWS Impersonation If...

This is part 5 of my ongoing EWS and Powershell How-To series in this part I'm going to be looking at the special EWS operations starting with the Delegate operations in this post. The Tale of Two Delegates (it is the 200th Anniversary of dickens) When you talk about delegates with EWS it can be a little confusing because it could be your talking about accessing another mailbox as a delegate for example . For example to access another mailboxes Inbox as a Delegate you would use $folderid = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Inbox, $MailboxName )      $Inbox  = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind( $service , $folderid )    The other type of Delegates are the assigning of Mailbox permissions via the use of the Delegate Operations or to put it pictorially this function in Outlook Delegates are always the best way of ass...